CVE-2008-2109

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-2109
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-05-07 21:20:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionfield.c in the libid3tag 0.15.0b library allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in '\0', which triggers an infinite loop.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Media-libs Libid3tag 0.15.0b All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Bug 210564 - media-libs/libid3tag <0.15.1b-r2 Infinite loop (CVE-2008-2109) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Patch
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:103 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
libid3tag: Denial of Service — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
[mad-dev] Initite loop bug in libid3tag-0.15.0b af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mars.org Exploit
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
'libid3tag' Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: libid3tag-0.15.1b-6.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Gentoo update for libid3tag - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Fedora update for libid3tag - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MITRE access.redhat.com
445812 – (CVE-2008-2109) CVE-2008-2109 libid3tag: infinite loop in ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST parsing MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
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